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* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Both Phiro and Lonnegan, Phiro is trying to pull of a hostile takeover of Stoneroot and kills many people in order to pull it off, Lonnegan is trying to harness the power of Gorfinax which is the main threat that the players are concerned with.]]
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* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Tamsin, the leader of the Stonerotten gang, initially seems to be part of the BigBadEnsemble along with Phiro and Lonnegan, but her plans ultimatly are less serious than either of theirs and she dies two thirds of the way through the campaign with little fanfare.]]
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!Season 1 Tropes:
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: It turns out that [[spoiler:Emma and Tamzin are identical twins.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: Rinaldo hits on Emma in their first encounter, but then seems interested in Silas, the male Stoneroot guard.
* AnArmAndALeg: Jayne makes a point of tearing the arms off of enemies she defeats in dire wolf form. She even keeps three.
* BadLiar: Rinaldo has a sky-high Charisma score, yet always seems to fail every check related to lying. This culminates in a lie so bad that the episode was entitled "Lie Hard."
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Both Phiro and Lonnegan, Phiro is trying to pull of a hostile takeover of Stoneroot and kills many people in order to pull it off, Lonnegan is trying to harness the power of Gorfinax which is the main threat that the players are concerned with.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Tamsin, the leader of the Stonerotten gang, initially seems to be part of the BigBadEnsemble along with Phiro and Lonnegan, but her plans ultimatly are less serious than either of theirs and she dies two thirds of the way through the campaign with little fanfare.]]
* BlackSpeech: Austin explicitly refers to the Abyssal language as "the Black Speech" when it is revealed that Anne understands it.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Anne takes some... liberties with the Abyssal sign in the Pickman Academy.
* BluffTheImposter: Rinaldo does this to [[spoiler:the fake lord's son by referring to a non-existent deceased aunt.]]
* BondCreatures: Marshmallow the dire ferret is Anne's ranger companion, given to her by Avandra.
* BoringButPractical: As a fighter, Rinaldo just hits things. Leon laments this simplicity at first, but changes his tune once he realizes how complicated spellcasting classes are.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The campaign really doesn't begin until mind-controlled miners show up and attack the party in the street.
* BrickJoke: Jess jokes in Episode 1 that Jayne will yell "Flaafy!" if she ever casts the spell Thunderwave. Guess what happens many, many episodes later?
* CatchPhrase: Anne has "Hi, I'm Anne!" and Rinaldo has "No one can kill Rinaldo!"
* ChekhovsGun: Anne turns fire purple in episode 2. 15 hours later....
* TheChurch: The religious center of Stoneroot is powerful enough to challenge the lord and important enough that the populace simply refers to it as "The Church."
* ChurchMilitant: Anne sees herself as this to the church of Avandra, although it is unclear if she is actually carrying out the will of the faith, or just overly eager and violent.
* ClearMyName: Episode 17 begins an arc with this as the most pressing goal.
* CliffHanger: Most episodes end with one, but the second episode earns extra points for Johnny name-dropping the trope, only for Austin to think he's referencing the [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} Sylvester Stallone movie]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Anne is always this, while Rinaldo indulges occasionally.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Jayne is this, especially when it comes to Anne.
* ColdBloodedTorture: This trope is the reason Episode 20 is called "Pimps Stole My Blood."
* CombatPragmatist: Anne can hold her own in a fight, but once she runs out of spells, she sees no shame in running for the hills.
* ConMan: Rinaldo is a charlatan. This gives him a disguise and false identity, not that it helps much.
* CriticalFailure: Anne only exists because of a mathematically improbable triple (!) botch during character creation, which left her with a 3 in Intelligence. As a result, she is literally dumber than a severed zombie hand, in game-terms.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Anne acts like a little child, but can do surprisingly powerful or violent things.
* DanceSensation: ''Everybody do the Rinaldo!''
* DealWithTheDevil: Played with. It's obvious early on that Lord Erlin is both immortal and involved with ''literal devils.'' Just how deep it goes, and what his motivations are, are some of the driving questions of the campaign.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in regards to Gorfinax. Erlin didn't make a deal with it--he's spent the last few centuries [[WellIntentionedExtremist trying to ''kill'' it.]]]]
* DemocracyIsFlawed:
-->'''Jess:''' The problem is--
-->'''Austin:''' Democracy!
-->'''Jess:''' Well, that's part of the problem....
* DireBeast: Jayne can shapeshift into a dire wolf. She always employs this when combat occurs.
** Anne gains a dire ferret companion from her deity.
* TheDitz: Anne, and adorably so.
* DualWielding: Rinaldo dual wields morningstars. While this would normally be illegal in 5th Edition D&D without the Dual Wielding Feat, Leon uses the stats of a weaker weapon to allow for it.
* EvilWeapon: The "strange dagger" Anne finds in the underground lair is actually [[spoiler:cursed with vampirism so powerful as to be immune to the Dispel Magic spell.]]
* ExploringTheEvilLair: The party spends a whole episode searching the underground compound of a villainous faction. Said villain later taunts them for missing important clues while they had the chance.
* ExtremelyDustyHome: Stoneroot is this trope scaled up to an entire city. Anne covers herself in dust just to fit in.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jayne hates Rinaldo so much that she tries to sell him into slavery.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Episode 2 is particularly heavy with hint drops.
* {{Frameup}}: The party is framed for [[spoiler:kidnapping the lord's son, despite spending the entire adventure trying to save him.]]
* {{Golem}}: Something that sounds an awful lot like a golem bursts up through the ground. The party fled so fast that they don't actually know if it was one or not, although they refer to it later as such.
* GroinAttack:
-->'''Austin:''' Anne punches Rinaldo in the balls. [Several moments later] Anne punches Gillet in the balls.
* HaveWeMet: Rinaldo asks the mysterious AC if they've met before, since they share an unusual accent.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Anne loves to cuddle Jayne in her Dire Wolf form.
* HolyHandGrenade: Anne channels holy light through her teddy bear to incinerate an undead monster.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Many of the prostitutes at the twist are just normal people trying to get by...and one of them ends up joining our heroes.
* ImAHumanitarian: Leon wonders aloud if the creepily kind townsfolk are feeding them human meat. Austin responds that it's not cannibalism for Anne, since she is a halfling.
* {{Improv}}: Podcasts and Dungeons & Dragons are both improvisational media, so it's no surprise that a D&D podcast is made up on the fly.
* JabbaTableManners: Anne challenges a child to a "slop off," which is exactly what it sounds like.
* {{Keet}}: Anne!
* KillerTeddyBear: Literally! Anne uses a teddy bear as her holy symbol, which means that she uses it to channel certain attacks, including one that incinerated an undead monster.
* KillingInSelfDefense: How the party rationalizes "the Stoneroot Massacre," in which Rinaldo escalated a fistfight into a bloodbath.
* KillItWithFire: Anne's suggestion for the evils plaguing the Pickman Academy.
* LaResistance: A treasonous movement is active in Stoneroot, which the players compare to the plot of Star Wars.
* LightEmUp: Anne is a cleric, so most of her abilities utilize radiant light, including Sacred Flame, Warding Flare, and Radiance Of The Dawn.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: Anne does this to Rinaldo in order to buff him with magic.
* LockedDoor: The party spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get through the service entrance of the Pickman Academy.
-->'''Austin:''' Foiled by a door!
* LovecraftLite: Seemingly ideal town with a dark secret? Check. Evil cult? Check. The Pickman Academy is even named after the Lovecraft short story "Pickman's Model."
* ManChild: A female variant. To the point where Austin had to clarify on Twitter that Anne is an adult.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Allana, when she ultimately ends the entire world by stabbing the orb with the tooth. An all around BAD IDEA.]]
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Anne can speak a number of different languages, however her intelligence (or lack of) tends to get in the way.
-->'''Austin:''' She has a hard time remembering what the Abyssal word for 'Yes' is, so she says "Verily?"
* NayTheist:
-->'''Jayne's Inner Monologue:''' Gods are stupid. I hate them.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Rinaldo tries to intimidate an old lady. He gets righteously beaten for his trouble.
* NeverSplitTheParty: Anne confronts the headmaster alone, much to Rinaldo's frustration.
** Episode 16 ends with all three party members in different locations.
-->'''Leon:''' Remember in the beginning when we said never break up the party? Ummm... WE'RE ALL ALONE!!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The party actually accomplishes their mission in Episode 11. Then Anne loses her temper and sets the adventure back significantly.
* TheNicknamer: Anne gets creative with her appellations for a monk named Milo, including "Musclebro Hardbody" and "Senator Suckshit."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Rinaldo delivers an epic thrashing to [[spoiler:Jayne, killing her despite the odds being ridiculously stacked in her favor.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Anne always introduces herself loudly enough to clip the podcast audio.
* NonSequitur: Anne is the master.
* NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom: A rare example in which this trope is enforced by the players, not the game.
-->'''Leon:''' I always skip side quests.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
-->'''Austin:''' I like to think we're creating a dynamic, that we suck so much of the time, when we're actually ''good'' it surprises everybody into doing what we want. They never see it coming!
* ObviouslyEvil: The headmaster of the Pickman Academy is so shady that the players wonder aloud if he will turn out to be the final boss somewhere down the road.
* {{Omniglot}}: Anne speaks Common, Halfling, Orc, Goblin, and Abyssal. Unfortunately, she isn't quite smart enough to translate accurately....
* OneGenderSchool: The party finds out the hard way that the Pickman Academy doesn't admit girls when it ruins their plan to infiltrate it.
* OnlySaneMan: Jayne is this to the party, who would be dead many times over without her.
* OnTheNext: PlayedWith. At the end of each episode random statements are jokingly recorded to sound like this.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Undead miners jump the party, but Johnny is insistent that they are not zombies. They were, in fact, ghouls.
* OutsideContextProblem: For the first two thirds of the campaign, the main threat seems to be Lonnegan and Lord Earlan's attempts to [[spoiler: summon Gorfinax]], however eventually a new antagonist appears in the form of [[spoiler: Phiro, a soldier from Acamoros who wants to conquer Stoneroot.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Rinaldo concocts an entire alter ego, only for it to immediately fall apart under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
-->'''Leon:''' I'm Filet Mignon from Pottsylvania!
* PhraseCatcher:
-->'''Austin:''' No one can kill Anne!
* PolarOppositeTwins: One twin volunteers at The Church and hangs out at a soup kitchen. The other is the leader of a dangerous gang of kidnappers.
* PrecisionFStrike: Austin, upon finding a sacrificial chamber.
-->'''Austin:''' Oh, fuck me running....
* PreviouslyOn: Every episode starts with this, including a pitch-shifted intonation of "Last time, on Dice Funk!"
* ProperlyParanoid: Rinaldo.
-->'''Leon:''' I don't trust people who aren't suspicious!
* PsychopathicManChild:
-->'''Austin:''' (On using Thaumaturgy) Anne is going to make her eyes blood red, as if they had been scooped out and both of her sockets filled with blood, and she's going to ''stare at him.''
* PyroManiac: Anne is just a little too eager to use fire to solve her problems.
* {{Roofhopping}}: Marshmallow spends several episodes jumping from roof to roof in order to find Anne's friends.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Rinaldo looks for one in every building. [[spoiler:He finally finds one in Episode 9.]]
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Jayne's entire shtick. She has transformed into a dire wolf, horse, and cat.
* SequenceBreaking: Johnny mentions that the party skipped about "a page and a half" of his plot.
* ShipperOnDeck: Everyone, both player and character, ships Rinaldo and Silas. Their ship name is "Sinaldo."
* ShoutOut: In addition to references to Podcast/WordFunk and Creator/HPLovecraft, there is a surprising nod to WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
-->'''Danion the Priest:''' What do you know about vampires?
-->'''Rinaldo:''' Oh, I love pie!
-->'''[A short time later]'''
-->'''Rinaldo:''' We got vampires.
-->'''Anne:''' You brought pie?
* ThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbAebwc2zE A Fistful of Nickels]] from Music/OverClockedRemix.
* TortureCellar: The party discovers one [[spoiler:under the Pickman Academy.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Stoneroot is this all over.
* TurnUndead: As a cleric, Anne has access to the spell, but it's actually Rinaldo who attempts this by apologizing profusely to the undead victims of The Stoneroot Massacre.
* TwinSwitch: It turns out that [[spoiler:Emma and Tamzin are identical twins and the whole adventure began because Tamzin hired the party while disguised as Emma.]]
* UncannyVillage: Rotswald is so nice that the players are immediately and violently suspicious.
* WhamLine: "When the dust settles [[spoiler:Jayne is nowhere to be seen."]]
** A related line drops several episodes later: "We recorded a session with just the two of us...."
** For fans of Podcast/WordFunk--and for the players themselves--the first mention of [[spoiler:Gorfinax]] changed ''everything.''
* WillNotTellALie: Jayne hates telling lies, even if it is a necessity, and will then disclose the truth when it is safe to do so.
* YouFool: At one point Austin yells, "You fool! You should have given him a fake name!"
* YourHeadASplode: Rinaldo pops the head of a mind-controlled miner using a morningstar during the campaign's first fight.
** [[spoiler: Also how Jayne is killed after turning traitor to the team]]
-->'''Johnny:''' [[spoiler: You quickly turn Jayne from cat, to human, to paste.]]
* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: It turns out that [[spoiler:Emma and Tamzin are identical twins.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: Rinaldo hits on Emma in their first encounter, but then seems interested in Silas, the male Stoneroot guard.
* AnArmAndALeg: Jayne makes a point of tearing the arms off of enemies she defeats in dire wolf form. She even keeps three.
* BadLiar: Rinaldo has a sky-high Charisma score, yet always seems to fail every check related to lying. This culminates in a lie so bad that the episode was entitled "Lie Hard."
* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler: Both Phiro and Lonnegan, Phiro is trying to pull of a hostile takeover of Stoneroot and kills many people in order to pull it off, Lonnegan is trying to harness the power of Gorfinax which is the main threat that the players are concerned with.]]
* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Tamsin, the leader of the Stonerotten gang, initially seems to be part of the BigBadEnsemble along with Phiro and Lonnegan, but her plans ultimatly are less serious than either of theirs and she dies two thirds of the way through the campaign with little fanfare.]]
* BlackSpeech: Austin explicitly refers to the Abyssal language as "the Black Speech" when it is revealed that Anne understands it.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: Anne takes some... liberties with the Abyssal sign in the Pickman Academy.
* BluffTheImposter: Rinaldo does this to [[spoiler:the fake lord's son by referring to a non-existent deceased aunt.]]
* BondCreatures: Marshmallow the dire ferret is Anne's ranger companion, given to her by Avandra.
* BoringButPractical: As a fighter, Rinaldo just hits things. Leon laments this simplicity at first, but changes his tune once he realizes how complicated spellcasting classes are.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The campaign really doesn't begin until mind-controlled miners show up and attack the party in the street.
* BrickJoke: Jess jokes in Episode 1 that Jayne will yell "Flaafy!" if she ever casts the spell Thunderwave. Guess what happens many, many episodes later?
* CatchPhrase: Anne has "Hi, I'm Anne!" and Rinaldo has "No one can kill Rinaldo!"
* ChekhovsGun: Anne turns fire purple in episode 2. 15 hours later....
* TheChurch: The religious center of Stoneroot is powerful enough to challenge the lord and important enough that the populace simply refers to it as "The Church."
* ChurchMilitant: Anne sees herself as this to the church of Avandra, although it is unclear if she is actually carrying out the will of the faith, or just overly eager and violent.
* ClearMyName: Episode 17 begins an arc with this as the most pressing goal.
* CliffHanger: Most episodes end with one, but the second episode earns extra points for Johnny name-dropping the trope, only for Austin to think he's referencing the [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} Sylvester Stallone movie]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Anne is always this, while Rinaldo indulges occasionally.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Jayne is this, especially when it comes to Anne.
* ColdBloodedTorture: This trope is the reason Episode 20 is called "Pimps Stole My Blood."
* CombatPragmatist: Anne can hold her own in a fight, but once she runs out of spells, she sees no shame in running for the hills.
* ConMan: Rinaldo is a charlatan. This gives him a disguise and false identity, not that it helps much.
* CriticalFailure: Anne only exists because of a mathematically improbable triple (!) botch during character creation, which left her with a 3 in Intelligence. As a result, she is literally dumber than a severed zombie hand, in game-terms.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Anne acts like a little child, but can do surprisingly powerful or violent things.
* DanceSensation: ''Everybody do the Rinaldo!''
* DealWithTheDevil: Played with. It's obvious early on that Lord Erlin is both immortal and involved with ''literal devils.'' Just how deep it goes, and what his motivations are, are some of the driving questions of the campaign.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in regards to Gorfinax. Erlin didn't make a deal with it--he's spent the last few centuries [[WellIntentionedExtremist trying to ''kill'' it.]]]]
* DemocracyIsFlawed:
-->'''Jess:''' The problem is--
-->'''Austin:''' Democracy!
-->'''Jess:''' Well, that's part of the problem....
* DireBeast: Jayne can shapeshift into a dire wolf. She always employs this when combat occurs.
** Anne gains a dire ferret companion from her deity.
* TheDitz: Anne, and adorably so.
* DualWielding: Rinaldo dual wields morningstars. While this would normally be illegal in 5th Edition D&D without the Dual Wielding Feat, Leon uses the stats of a weaker weapon to allow for it.
* EvilWeapon: The "strange dagger" Anne finds in the underground lair is actually [[spoiler:cursed with vampirism so powerful as to be immune to the Dispel Magic spell.]]
* ExploringTheEvilLair: The party spends a whole episode searching the underground compound of a villainous faction. Said villain later taunts them for missing important clues while they had the chance.
* ExtremelyDustyHome: Stoneroot is this trope scaled up to an entire city. Anne covers herself in dust just to fit in.
* FalseFriend: [[spoiler:Jayne hates Rinaldo so much that she tries to sell him into slavery.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Episode 2 is particularly heavy with hint drops.
* {{Frameup}}: The party is framed for [[spoiler:kidnapping the lord's son, despite spending the entire adventure trying to save him.]]
* {{Golem}}: Something that sounds an awful lot like a golem bursts up through the ground. The party fled so fast that they don't actually know if it was one or not, although they refer to it later as such.
* GroinAttack:
-->'''Austin:''' Anne punches Rinaldo in the balls. [Several moments later] Anne punches Gillet in the balls.
* HaveWeMet: Rinaldo asks the mysterious AC if they've met before, since they share an unusual accent.
* HeroesLoveDogs: Anne loves to cuddle Jayne in her Dire Wolf form.
* HolyHandGrenade: Anne channels holy light through her teddy bear to incinerate an undead monster.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Many of the prostitutes at the twist are just normal people trying to get by...and one of them ends up joining our heroes.
* ImAHumanitarian: Leon wonders aloud if the creepily kind townsfolk are feeding them human meat. Austin responds that it's not cannibalism for Anne, since she is a halfling.
* {{Improv}}: Podcasts and Dungeons & Dragons are both improvisational media, so it's no surprise that a D&D podcast is made up on the fly.
* JabbaTableManners: Anne challenges a child to a "slop off," which is exactly what it sounds like.
* {{Keet}}: Anne!
* KillerTeddyBear: Literally! Anne uses a teddy bear as her holy symbol, which means that she uses it to channel certain attacks, including one that incinerated an undead monster.
* KillingInSelfDefense: How the party rationalizes "the Stoneroot Massacre," in which Rinaldo escalated a fistfight into a bloodbath.
* KillItWithFire: Anne's suggestion for the evils plaguing the Pickman Academy.
* LaResistance: A treasonous movement is active in Stoneroot, which the players compare to the plot of Star Wars.
* LightEmUp: Anne is a cleric, so most of her abilities utilize radiant light, including Sacred Flame, Warding Flare, and Radiance Of The Dawn.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: Anne does this to Rinaldo in order to buff him with magic.
* LockedDoor: The party spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get through the service entrance of the Pickman Academy.
-->'''Austin:''' Foiled by a door!
* LovecraftLite: Seemingly ideal town with a dark secret? Check. Evil cult? Check. The Pickman Academy is even named after the Lovecraft short story "Pickman's Model."
* ManChild: A female variant. To the point where Austin had to clarify on Twitter that Anne is an adult.
* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Allana, when she ultimately ends the entire world by stabbing the orb with the tooth. An all around BAD IDEA.]]
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Anne can speak a number of different languages, however her intelligence (or lack of) tends to get in the way.
-->'''Austin:''' She has a hard time remembering what the Abyssal word for 'Yes' is, so she says "Verily?"
* NayTheist:
-->'''Jayne's Inner Monologue:''' Gods are stupid. I hate them.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Rinaldo tries to intimidate an old lady. He gets righteously beaten for his trouble.
* NeverSplitTheParty: Anne confronts the headmaster alone, much to Rinaldo's frustration.
** Episode 16 ends with all three party members in different locations.
-->'''Leon:''' Remember in the beginning when we said never break up the party? Ummm... WE'RE ALL ALONE!!
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The party actually accomplishes their mission in Episode 11. Then Anne loses her temper and sets the adventure back significantly.
* TheNicknamer: Anne gets creative with her appellations for a monk named Milo, including "Musclebro Hardbody" and "Senator Suckshit."
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Rinaldo delivers an epic thrashing to [[spoiler:Jayne, killing her despite the odds being ridiculously stacked in her favor.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Anne always introduces herself loudly enough to clip the podcast audio.
* NonSequitur: Anne is the master.
* NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom: A rare example in which this trope is enforced by the players, not the game.
-->'''Leon:''' I always skip side quests.
* ObfuscatingStupidity:
-->'''Austin:''' I like to think we're creating a dynamic, that we suck so much of the time, when we're actually ''good'' it surprises everybody into doing what we want. They never see it coming!
* ObviouslyEvil: The headmaster of the Pickman Academy is so shady that the players wonder aloud if he will turn out to be the final boss somewhere down the road.
* {{Omniglot}}: Anne speaks Common, Halfling, Orc, Goblin, and Abyssal. Unfortunately, she isn't quite smart enough to translate accurately....
* OneGenderSchool: The party finds out the hard way that the Pickman Academy doesn't admit girls when it ruins their plan to infiltrate it.
* OnlySaneMan: Jayne is this to the party, who would be dead many times over without her.
* OnTheNext: PlayedWith. At the end of each episode random statements are jokingly recorded to sound like this.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Undead miners jump the party, but Johnny is insistent that they are not zombies. They were, in fact, ghouls.
* OutsideContextProblem: For the first two thirds of the campaign, the main threat seems to be Lonnegan and Lord Earlan's attempts to [[spoiler: summon Gorfinax]], however eventually a new antagonist appears in the form of [[spoiler: Phiro, a soldier from Acamoros who wants to conquer Stoneroot.]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Rinaldo concocts an entire alter ego, only for it to immediately fall apart under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
-->'''Leon:''' I'm Filet Mignon from Pottsylvania!
* PhraseCatcher:
-->'''Austin:''' No one can kill Anne!
* PolarOppositeTwins: One twin volunteers at The Church and hangs out at a soup kitchen. The other is the leader of a dangerous gang of kidnappers.
* PrecisionFStrike: Austin, upon finding a sacrificial chamber.
-->'''Austin:''' Oh, fuck me running....
* PreviouslyOn: Every episode starts with this, including a pitch-shifted intonation of "Last time, on Dice Funk!"
* ProperlyParanoid: Rinaldo.
-->'''Leon:''' I don't trust people who aren't suspicious!
* PsychopathicManChild:
-->'''Austin:''' (On using Thaumaturgy) Anne is going to make her eyes blood red, as if they had been scooped out and both of her sockets filled with blood, and she's going to ''stare at him.''
* PyroManiac: Anne is just a little too eager to use fire to solve her problems.
* {{Roofhopping}}: Marshmallow spends several episodes jumping from roof to roof in order to find Anne's friends.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Rinaldo looks for one in every building. [[spoiler:He finally finds one in Episode 9.]]
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Jayne's entire shtick. She has transformed into a dire wolf, horse, and cat.
* SequenceBreaking: Johnny mentions that the party skipped about "a page and a half" of his plot.
* ShipperOnDeck: Everyone, both player and character, ships Rinaldo and Silas. Their ship name is "Sinaldo."
* ShoutOut: In addition to references to Podcast/WordFunk and Creator/HPLovecraft, there is a surprising nod to WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike:
-->'''Danion the Priest:''' What do you know about vampires?
-->'''Rinaldo:''' Oh, I love pie!
-->'''[A short time later]'''
-->'''Rinaldo:''' We got vampires.
-->'''Anne:''' You brought pie?
* ThemeTune: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbAebwc2zE A Fistful of Nickels]] from Music/OverClockedRemix.
* TortureCellar: The party discovers one [[spoiler:under the Pickman Academy.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Stoneroot is this all over.
* TurnUndead: As a cleric, Anne has access to the spell, but it's actually Rinaldo who attempts this by apologizing profusely to the undead victims of The Stoneroot Massacre.
* TwinSwitch: It turns out that [[spoiler:Emma and Tamzin are identical twins and the whole adventure began because Tamzin hired the party while disguised as Emma.]]
* UncannyVillage: Rotswald is so nice that the players are immediately and violently suspicious.
* WhamLine: "When the dust settles [[spoiler:Jayne is nowhere to be seen."]]
** A related line drops several episodes later: "We recorded a session with just the two of us...."
** For fans of Podcast/WordFunk--and for the players themselves--the first mention of [[spoiler:Gorfinax]] changed ''everything.''
* WillNotTellALie: Jayne hates telling lies, even if it is a necessity, and will then disclose the truth when it is safe to do so.
* YouFool: At one point Austin yells, "You fool! You should have given him a fake name!"
* YourHeadASplode: Rinaldo pops the head of a mind-controlled miner using a morningstar during the campaign's first fight.
** [[spoiler: Also how Jayne is killed after turning traitor to the team]]
-->'''Johnny:''' [[spoiler: You quickly turn Jayne from cat, to human, to paste.]]
